Unlike other Office programs, such as Word, Excel does not provide a button that you can use to highlight all data or portions of data in a cell. However, you can mimic highlighting by filling the cell or cells with color alone or with a highlighting format that consists of a color and/or a pattern. You can also quickly copy the color or highlighting format to other cells.

If you want to make specific data or portions of data in a cell or a range of cells stand out, you can show that data in a different font color or format.